Roots of insurgency : Mexican regions, 1750-1824 / Brian R. Hamnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamnett, Brian R., author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 59.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Mexico--History--18th century.

Insurgency.

Insurgency--Mexico--History--19th century.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--Wars of Independence, 1810-1821--Causes.

Mexico--Social conditions--To 1810.

Mexico--History, Local.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and to assess their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

List of maps

Acknowledgements

Weights and measures

Introduction

Social tensions in the provinces

Insurgency

characteristics and responses

Conflict, protest and rebellion

Death and dislocation

Insurrection

recruitment and extension

The struggle for Puebla, 1811-13

Local conflict and provincial chieftains

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-87098-1

0-511-57273-5

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05184 hdl